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| Scott Ritter's sex-sting trial begins |
| 2011-04-12 |
| The attorney for a former U.N. chief weapons inspector from Delmar facing charges over a sexually explicit online chat says his client never believed he was exchanging messages with an underage girl. Testimony got under way Tuesday morning in Stroudsburg, Pa., in the trial of 49-year-old Scott Ritter. He is charged with engaging in a sexually graphic online chat with an undercover police officer posing as a 15-year-old from the Poconos. Prosecutors say Ritter turned on a webcam and fondled himself despite the officer saying he was underage. Defense attorney Gary Coleman says Ritter believed he was chatting with an adult. Ritter became a fierce critic of the Iraq war. He claimed similar charges filed against him previously in New York were politically motivated. Those charges were eventually dropped. Read more: http://www.timesunion.com/default/article/Scott-Ritter-s-sex-sting-trial-begins-1333492.php#ixzz1JKYEZlxK |
| Posted by:Beavis |